ImaginOn: The Joe and Joan Martin Center is a 102,000-square-foot learning center that is open to the public daily for free, featuring a variety of library, audiovisual, and performing arts studios and libraries for use by Charlotte's youth. The center was opened to the public in October of 2005 and is Mecklenburg County's first LEED-certified facility, designed by the Holzman Moss Bottino and Gantt Huberman architectural firms. It is operated as a joint venture between the Children's Theater of Charlotte and the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, offering a full children's library facility, the Spangler Children's Library, on its first floor. The 4,000-square-foot Loft features a collaborative hangout space for local teens, while Studio I lets teens try their hand at animation technologies and production. The center is also home to the McColl Family Theater and the Wells Fargo Playhouse, which present regular season and touring theatrical performances by the Children's Theater of Charlotte.

ImaginOn: The Joe and Joan Martin Center, 300 E 7th St, Charlotte, NC 28202, Phone: 704-416-4600

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